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Who Are They?
Recently I was walking around in the Highland Lawn Cemetery at Terre Haute, Indiana, and came across this metal marker for the Modern American Fraternal Order. I had never seen this marker before nor...
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Elaborate to simple
Lakeview Cemetery, South Haven, Michigan Many fraternal organizations and membership societies were founded in the mid and later part of the 19th Century. Some of the organizations, such as, the Sons...
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Hoosier Preacher
JAMES HAVENS DIED NOV. 4, 1864 AGED 73 YRS. & 9 MO. —- ANNA WIFE OF JAMES HAVENS DIED MAR. 23, 1864 AGED 75 Years. I HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. I HAVE FINSIHED MY COURSE. I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH....
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The Improved Order
The metal markers above and below from the North Conway Cemetery at Conway, New Hampshire, mark the graves of a members of the Improved Order of Red Men, which claims its beginnings with the patriots...
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Sons and Daughters
North Conway Cemetery, North Conway, New Hampshire Many organizations were founded in the later part of the 19th Century that required the prospective members demonstrate that their ancestors had been...
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Figli d’Italia
In the last decade of the 19th Century, tens of thousands came to the United States in the largest wave of immigrants to the U.S. Previous immigrants had come from mostly Northern European countries,...
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Odd Fellows Symbolism
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a fraternal organization that formed in England in the 1700s as a service organization. The American association was founded in Baltimore, Maryland, on April...
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Victorian Melange, Take 2
SEBASTIANO ORSINI BORN IN SIRACUSA, ITALY, FEB. 3. 1873. DIED IN SAVANNAH, JAN. 9. 1918. A TRUE AND KIND MAN. A FAITHFUL HUSBAND, LIVED A QUITE BUT USEFUL LIFE, AND DIED REGRETTED BY ALL WHO KNEW...
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The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
The last five posts have been about accidents that occurred on trains. The posts, in a way, also highlighted that trains in the 19th century and early 20th Century were not only an important mode of...
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Any Help? – Mystery Solved
One of this blogpost’s readers, Phyllis, solved the mystery. The metal marker connected to this grave represents the Switchmen’s Union of North America which was a labor union founded in 1894 and...
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